Mother Superior Dancing Queen

I began liturgical dancing at the age of 12 and my first teacher was Mother Superior Norma. With a name like that we thought that she must have been voted the best mum in town and that her reward was to wear a table cloth on her head and teach liturgical dance. She really could move and particularly enjoyed the work of the English Ensemble, Queen.

Her only weakness was occasionally falling asleep while teaching us, most times mid sentence. When this happened, as we were well trained, we would keep practicing the dance moves until she woke up. Unfortunately this quite often would take up to 6 hours. To this day I still find myself shaking uncontrollably when I do the 'skipping, swish arms back and forth, nod head' move.

I found out later that the falling asleep was really a bad habit for Mother Superior; once she was allowed to wear a tracksuit, the instant sleeping ended.